Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronounsThis study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that deal with the variation between thy and thine and between ye and you. Methodologically, the study makes use of descriptive statistics, but incorporates both quantitative and qualitative features, drawing in particular on research methods recently developed within the fields of corpus linguistics, socio-historical linguistics and historical pragmatics. By making comparisons to other corpora on Early Modern English the work does not only contribute to Shakespeare studies, but on a broader scale also to language change by providing new and more detailed insights into the mechanisms that have led to a restructuring of the pronoun paradigm in the Early Modern period. |
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... find it desirable to start at the far end and take the final summary and conclusion as an introduction to the topic that puts everything that has gone before into a clearer, more concise perspective. CHAPTER 2 Previous research on the ...
... find it desirable to start at the far end and take the final summary and conclusion as an introduction to the topic that puts everything that has gone before into a clearer, more concise perspective. CHAPTER 2 Previous research on the ...
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... find general reference works and dictionaries that list and describe linguistic peculiarities of Shakespeare's language use, including the personal pronouns. The first comprehensive, and in many respects, classical account of the ...
... find general reference works and dictionaries that list and describe linguistic peculiarities of Shakespeare's language use, including the personal pronouns. The first comprehensive, and in many respects, classical account of the ...
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... find increased frequencies of vocative titles in the contexts of 'face-threatening acts'. A brief survey shows that this is true at least of Henry VIII, I, 1. This scene contains twelve such vocatives [.. .]” (1992:399). More recently ...
... find increased frequencies of vocative titles in the contexts of 'face-threatening acts'. A brief survey shows that this is true at least of Henry VIII, I, 1. This scene contains twelve such vocatives [.. .]” (1992:399). More recently ...
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... find writers who do not seem to have 'marked' one of the forms over the other” (1994a: 148). If this observation is correct, then it is not only a matter of chronology but it would have the further semantic-pragmatic implications “that ...
... find writers who do not seem to have 'marked' one of the forms over the other” (1994a: 148). If this observation is correct, then it is not only a matter of chronology but it would have the further semantic-pragmatic implications “that ...
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... Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, / That hast within thee undivulged crimes / Unwhipt of justice! Hide thee, thou bloody hand; / Thou perjur'd, and thou simular of virtue / That art incestuous! (LR 3, 2, 49—55) Wales ...
... Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, / That hast within thee undivulged crimes / Unwhipt of justice! Hide thee, thou bloody hand; / Thou perjur'd, and thou simular of virtue / That art incestuous! (LR 3, 2, 49—55) Wales ...
Contents
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Chapter 4 The distribution of thou and you and their variants in verse and prose | 63 |
Chapter 5 A womans face with Natures own hand painted Hast thou the master mistress of my passion | 83 |
Chapter 6 You beastly knave know you no reverence? | 99 |
Chapter 7 Prithee no more vs Pray you chuck come hither | 187 |
Chapter 8 The role of grammar in the selection of thou or you | 213 |
Chapter 10 Stand sir and throw us that you have about ye | 249 |
Chapter 11 Summary and conclusion | 283 |
Notes | 297 |
References | 311 |
Name index | 333 |
Subject index | 337 |
The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES | 340 |
Chapter 9 In thine own person answer thy abuse | 223 |
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16th century 17th century address pronouns adjectives analysis blank verse Brown and Gilman Chapter Claudio co-occurring confirmed context cousin diachronic discourse discourse markers discourse particle distribution drama Elizabethan EModE English examples factors Falstaff figures final find findings first five forms of address free variation frequent function genre grammatical husband imperatives influence instances King knave lady language Leonato lexical liege linguistic lord markedness markers mistress Nevalainen nominative occur ofthe Othello plural politeness pragmatic pray thee prithee pronominal pronoun combined Comedies pronoun switching pronoun usage pronoun Y pronoun pronouns co—occurring rogue Schmidt and Sarrazin second person pronouns Shakespeare Corpus Shakespeare’s plays significant singular sirrah sociolinguistic Sonnet 13 sonnets speaker Spevack syntactic Table term of endearment text types thine thou Total Tragedies variation verbs verse and prose vocatives vowel ye tokens